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BREAKING NEWS: RISING GANG VIOLENCE SPARKS 80% OF OUR CRIME.

With these headlines popping up here, there and everywhere, stereotypes are gradually formed. If we walk past a young adult with his hood up, we immediately clutch our bags in terror of being mugged. However, is every single youth of today really that dangerous, or are the media creating a moral panic to make us believe so? It can be said that the media sensationalizes crime to create moral panic. This is used to control the way in which the public behave.

Terrorism has also created a moral panic within our society, in particular the implication of Islam in terrorist attacks. BREAKING NEWS: ISLAMIC TERROR DRIVES CHRISTIANS OUT OF MALI; MAN CHARGED WITH PLOTTING TERROR only to be expected when it comes to this.
CAMPAIGN IN THE NAME OF ISLAM; POLICE ARREST SUSPECT ISLAMIC TERRORIST.

With headlines like these being thrown at us from every angle, it causes society to associate the Islamic religion with terrorism. The media scares us into thinking our country and lives are under attack by this religion full stop. This has seen an uprising in racial abuse within our nation towards Muslims, and rapid decline within our society is

The concern expressed by the media can often both constitute and generate public concern where it isn’t needed, causing an outcry of panic amongst our society, as well as stereotyping certain groups and being prejudiced towards them. We cannot progress if we continue to allow the media to provoke these moral panics, and we will only see a degenerative society if this carries on.
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